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Just wondering if anyone else has people who don't know you well assume that your big dog must be your partner/husbands/brothers dog?

I got Zeus, a DDB, (RIP) a year before I even met my partner but EVERYONE we met assumed he was his dog.

Many, many times I have had people assume that my dog, who is at my house, is my brothers dog? They even know the dog lives with me not the brother, but say things like 'Love your dog, man' lol What the?

Also, was visiting a new friend with my (now ex) partner and he mentioned I was getting a new pup..... the guy says ' a chihuahua?'... lol, ah, no.

Pretty sure this is a form of sexism....anyone else had this happen and does it annoy the crap out of you?

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Yep, I used to walk our family bullmastiffs, and people didn't believe he was the family dog and that I could walk him.

My mum (about fiften to twenty years ago) used to walk two of them (one on each side).. The male at his heaviest was 65kgs, the female about 50kgs.. She said people would cross the road to avoid her, and then were surprised when the dogs didn't react. She said a lot of people think they are a males dog and can't be controlled by a female.. I love big dogs!

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YES!!

I used to have a rotti, Odin who was MY baby, and even tho the only time people ever saw him I was there too (we lived out of town at the time) they assumed he was my husbands dog!! I would always be the one walking him etc but becuase people saw him on the back of hubby's ute (me in the cab too!!) and not in my Triton (had a canopy on it so they could see the dogs anyway!) they always asked him questions about him...hubby used to always laugh and shrug his shoulders and say "I don't know. Not my dog. Ask her." :rofl: Then when we got our Bullmastif it made it even worse!!

I'm not a small woman...6 foot tall actually!! So I don't know why people think "it's the man's dog" just becuase it's a larger breed?? ....btw, I now have SBT and people STILL assume they are HIS dogs!!! The only reason I went back to SBT is coz I now have kids and my eldest son doesn't like big dogs other wise I would have gone back to rotti's!!! :D

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If I see a couple out and there is a husky or a staffie and an SWF, I do tend to assume the SWF belongs to the girl. And I'm usually right.

I once met a woman walking a very badly behaved staffie, and since it was her husband's dog and he'd recently split from her, and dumped the dog on her, the first thing she was going to do was have that dog's nuts off. Apparently it couldn't be done while hubby was still at home - because the dogs' balls and his were psychically linked. Neither the woman nor the dog deserved that man.

If there are two dogs and two people male and female and it's a rotti and a staffie - I assume the rotti belongs to the girl. Don't know why. Often - the dogs give it away whose is which dog. The ones that really make me laugh is when one partner's dog has ditched them for the other partner. So there are two people, two dogs, but as far as the dogs are concerned, only one boss.

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Nope, it's pretty obvious to most that Kei is mine and I am his :).

Some people presumed that I would just get a small and/or "pretty" dog or that I wouldn't be able to manage a large dog.... hmmmm... wonder what they will say when the Maligator arrives :laugh:

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Yes but sometimes it works in my favour. When we were driving from Sydney to Adelaide, I called a motel and asked if we could stay with our dog. On the phone, the guy obviously assumed from my voice that I owned some sort of pomeranian type pooch... Well we arrived quite late, but the next morning when he saw our doberman he was taken aback - he said, "I thought you said you had a puppy!" Of course Sammy was only 10 months old so really he was a puppy... no lies there. Then he just remarked, "that's a whole lot of dog."

People have asked us who chose the doberman breed, like they expect for it to be Dan but for some reason suspect it was me...

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Only when Im actually walking with my Fiance, took Brutus for a walk yesterday with his new bling diamonte collar and lead on too... that also tends to stop people assuming he isnt my dog lol ... generally I think people assume the dog belongs to who ever is holding it. When Im doing grooming it is surprising how many of the cutsie little fluffies are the "Husbands" Dog lol. Groomed two Corgi's yesterday and the wife came in to pay, when her husband came in she gave the leashes to him "Here take your Corgi's Dear" :rofl:

So I guess it works both ways, what used to always get me was my CAR! When I had a huge dark coloured old 4wd with the huge tyres and bullbar on it "Is that your boyfriends car?" Solution: Covered the dash in all the cutsie little dog toys i had in my collection. Questions stopped after that. :thumbsup:

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YES!!

I used to have a rotti, Odin who was MY baby, and even tho the only time people ever saw him I was there too (we lived out of town at the time) they assumed he was my husbands dog!! I would always be the one walking him etc but becuase people saw him on the back of hubby's ute (me in the cab too!!) and not in my Triton (had a canopy on it so they could see the dogs anyway!) they always asked him questions about him...hubby used to always laugh and shrug his shoulders and say "I don't know. Not my dog. Ask her." :rofl: Then when we got our Bullmastif it made it even worse!!

I'm not a small woman...6 foot tall actually!! So I don't know why people think "it's the man's dog" just becuase it's a larger breed?? ....btw, I now have SBT and people STILL assume they are HIS dogs!!! The only reason I went back to SBT is coz I now have kids and my eldest son doesn't like big dogs other wise I would have gone back to rotti's!!! :D

Glad someone understands! Wish my ex would have said what your hubby did, he would carry on, and make it up. Drove me nuts. One of the reasons he is now an ex. Verbal diarrhea! :laugh:

I once met a woman walking a very badly behaved staffie, and since it was her husband's dog and he'd recently split from her, and dumped the dog on her, the first thing she was going to do was have that dog's nuts off. Apparently it couldn't be done while hubby was still at home - because the dogs' balls and his were psychically linked. Neither the woman nor the dog deserved that man.

:rofl: Think you might be right there.

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I plan to get a rottie in the future, and would love a big muscular male. Will be interesting to see if I get the same reaction.

As for me, I assume whoever is walking the dog is the owner. It doesn't matter if it's a guy with two little fluffies or a woman with a rottie. I don't really think that much about it, and if someone asked me, I would just assume it's the owner.

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Nahhh... because I'm not the most girly girl on the planet, people tend to get the wrong idea about my sexuality, and thus don't think it's strange that I have large dogs as pets... go figure?

(for the record, I'm very much into men for human "social interactions"... *grin*)

T.

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